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Modeling Instruction – Teacher Scholarship | Arizona State University Department of Physics People Faculty Faculty by Discipline Staff Graduate Students Directory Research Biophysics Biological Physics Cosmology Particle and Astrophysics Nanoscience and Materials Physics Physics and Society View all Publications Events Upcoming seminars Department Colloquia Distinguished Lecturers Nanoscience Seminars Cosmology Seminars Biophysics Seminars Cosmology seminars Courses News Newsletter News Archive Resources Student Success Center Physics TA Schedule Policies Department Resources Physics IT Instrument Shops People Modeling Instruction Teacher Scholarship Program Mission The Modeling method of instruction corrects many weaknesses of the traditional lecture demonstration method including the fragmentation of knowledge student passivity and the persistence of naïve beliefs about the physical world From its inception the Modeling Instruction program has been concerned with reforming high school physics teaching to make it more coherent and student centered and to incorporate the computer as an essential scientific tool In a series of intensive workshops over two years high school teachers learn to be leaders in science teaching reform and technology infusion in their schools They are equipped with a robust teaching methodology for developing student abilities to make sense of physical experience to understand scientific claims to articulate coherent opinions of their own and defend them with cogent arguments and to evaluate evidence in support of justified belief Evaluation Outcomes Student FCI gains for 100 Arizona teachers who took Modeling Workshops were almost as high as those for leading teachers nationwide even though three fourths of the participating Arizona teachers do not have a degree in physics Teachers who implement the Modeling method most fully have the highest student posttest FCI mean scores and gains 7500 high school physics students who participated in Leadership Modeling Workshops from 1995 to 1998 Teachers gave the FCI to their classes as a baseline posttest when they were teaching traditionally before their first Modeling Workshop and as a pretest